Development Info Underrail 2: Infusion Dev Log #9: New Combat System

[luj1]

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This is what I like to see

 

[ItsChon]

Look at the spitter fight and imagine the player had throwing knives or something. Projectiles cause damage only when they hit and you can see the player's "progress bar" continues moving while they're in-flight.
If you channeled a defensive ability vs. enemies with slow moving projectiles and vs. enemies with fast projectiles, projectile speed could define whether you have enough time to activate the ability and mitigate the damage. This didn't exist in Underrail before.

This actually did exist in Underrail when out of combat and the game was running in real time, but I assume Infusion will be different. Either way though, you have no way of knowing whether or not the animations actually accurately reflect the systems or if they're just abstractions of a system that doesn't have projectile speed.

I'm drawing attention to the fact that it's not just Underrail with smaller turns. You mentally replace AP cost with a time cost, you also have to worry about the duration of the action itself if it has a channel time now. For a more complex action like burst fire you have to add things up yourself, aiming time, channel time, to realize how long you'll actually be exposed to enemy fire.

What you're saying about channeling a burst fire is literally just adding an additional AP cost to such things and then converting it to time. I doubt that's actually how the system was introduced but my point is to illustrate that it's still remarkable similar to original Underrail. Obviously it's "not just Underrail with smaller turns", there's more going on. The point of the analogy is to highlight that the combat systems should feel pretty damn similar, maintaining that turn-based feel that we all love.